HathiTrust ingested a record 553,963 volumes in October. These included nearly 5,000 volumes from Penn State and initial loads of volumes from the University of California’s Santa Cruz and San Diego campuses. Ingest of volumes from Penn State will continue in November. Subsequent shipments of metadata for up to 600,000 additional volumes from UC campuses are expected in November. Ingest of these volumes will begin shortly thereafter.
HathiTrust participates in grant from Mellon Foundation
Google Summit and Internet Archive Ingest
Large-scale Search
Staff at the University of Michigan successfully indexed all volumes in HathiTrust using the newly acquired hardware. However, the official launch of the large-scale search application was postponed in order to acquire additional hardware to accommodate new index growth.
HathiTrust/OCLC Catalog
After finalizing metadata requirements for the version 1 catalog in September, the HathiTrust/OCLC Catalog team turned its attention in October to interface requirements. The team is currently finalizing interface requirements for version 1 of the catalog and has agreed to engage in collaborative usability testing during the first quarter of 2010. Meanwhile, OCLC’s e-content synchronization work for HathiTrust remains on schedule, and is expected to be completed by the end of the calendar year.
New Growth: Number of Volumes Added Indiana University
64,614 volumes added in October, 84,132 Total Penn State University
4,675 volumes added in October, 4,675 Total University of California
264,710 volumes added in October, 786,414 Total University of Michigan
206,283 volumes added in October, 3,417,264 Total University of Wisconsin
20,430 volumes added in October, 242,705 Total Totals
553,963 volumes added in October, 4,535,190 Total
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